Sunday, October 4, 2009

We're celebrating Back to School with a fun giveaway from Avery. This giveaway includes great stuff like Hi-Liters, labels, GlueStics, binders, dividers, sheet protectors, Marks-a-Lot permanent markers, and t-shirt transfers. The gift basket has a retail value of over $50!

Avery recently partnered with Box Tops for Education. Now, when you purchase Avery school supplies for the new academic year you also receive Box Tops coupons to clip and return to your child’s school to be redeemed for cash. Each school then uses the cash at their discretion to purchase new supplies, fund programs, or buy much-needed equipment, computers, etc.

I know you’d like to win this great prize package from Avery. As usual, I have several ways for you to earn entries. Of course, the more times you enter, the higher your odds of winning. You are not required to do any or all of these, but you can earn an entry for each one completed. Here are your options:

1) Leave a comment with something other than “enter me”. Tell me about the school supplies you like or give a tip about saving money or having fun with kids.

2) Tweet about this giveaway on twitter. If possible, include @thriftymommy in your tweet. Be sure to leave your twitter name or status url in the comment box. You can earn 3 tweet entries per day.

4) Blog about this giveaway or mention it on some sort of forum. Leave a direct url so that I can easily find the info for your entry.

5) Give this post a thumbs up on Stumble Upon, Digg It, add a link on Facebook, or some other way of promoting the giveaway.

6) Add Little Fun; Little Learning to your blogroll.

You can earn entries for each of these things that you do. Please leave a separate comment for each one. It just makes it easier for tallying entries and choosing a winner. Please leave an email address on your Blogger profile or in the comments so that I can contact the winner.

This contest ends Sunday, October 11, 2009 and is open to those with a US mailing address. Winners will be contacted via email and will have 72 hours to respond.

Good luck everyone!

Sorry for the weird colored image. I tried to upload it several times. Not sure what happened.

176 comments:

At our house, highlighters are a must, as are page tab stickers and white-out. Of course, pretty note pads and sticky notes are fun, too! Thanks for much for the chance to win this great kit.Megretmusesofmegret (at) gmail (dot) com

I bought lots of school supplies right before school started thinking the kids would have a huge list. I got lots of great deals on them. Well turns out, they didn't have to bring a thing!!! We just moved to a new state. Well the supplies will come in handy for all of our crafts and also can use them for the Christmas Shoebox program at church.

I love all school supplies. I think it comes with the territory (being a teacher in another life BC(before children)) I would love to win this. Of course, my favorites are notebooks because that is how I keep myself organized. blessedw4@gmail.com

My daughter has just started college. We are paying for her school, but she is trying to make it on her own for all her other expenses by working part-time. Since we're both on tight budgets, this would be a great thing to win!

The most popular school supply at our house is the mechanical pencils. I swear my kids are hoarding them in their rooms or desks at school. I bought two packs of 50 when school started in August and I am down to about 12 of them.

I know somewhere I've seen pens that can be attached to key rings etc. I can find the markers and highlighters with ease, but no pens! It is so much easier for me to have a pen, black marker and yellow highlighter on one rope to free up my hands. Pockets are out of the question because they either fall out or jab me when I sit and my ears do not hold writing implements at all.

Today I have my nieces over, and for fun, I bought shoestring licorice and fruitloops. We're making "jewelry" out of the ingredients. Cheap, fun, and the girls are having a blast. Thanks for the giveaway.

I love new office supplies! My favorite find a couple of years ago was the staple puller in the shape of a thick pen. It really works well without tearing the paper. Thanks for the chance to win the Avery supplies! (krstrpp at hotmail dot com)

We buy school supplies in bulk for the year when they are on sale.We also buy several cases of various supplies to donate to certain charities that help low income and families that have lost their jobs over the last year.Thank you so much for the chance to win.

I love Avery, I remember using their products ever since I was doing projects in middle school- they've never let me down! This selection of goodies look really useful, you can never have too many pens or binders!

Christina - xristya@rock.com - When I was little I ALWAYS liked going back to school, and the school supplies were a symbol: the beautiful way the pencils smelled, and the notebooks that had not one single word in them yet!

With 3 teens things can get expensive--when buying back to school supplies so I poor over the circulars in the newspaper--I have great luck wit Target, Office Depot, Office Max, and Walgreens. Office Depot has great deals- but you have to be there the minute it starts --they go fast.kakihararocks@gmail.com

You can save money by getting meat/s at the grocery store on certain days that they havent sold the meat and are reducing it for quick sale so be on the look out for that. Our walmart does this also so check yours out.

I got to buy school supplies again for my 4 yr old grandson, as he started preschool this year. He went with me and was so excited picking out the things he needed to 'share' with his class. Thanks for this great contest! lrussel1@rochester.rr.com

We do most of our school supply shopping in the week after all of our local schools start back up. That way everything is getting clearanced and then we get great deals and we just save it all until the following school year. Saves us money every year.titletowntreasures(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

A member of our family who was supposed to start college two years ago but was not able to because she was diagnosed with Leukemia was finally able to start this past month. I would really love to win this for her so that she can have these items for her school work.